Mine Index 3788 Contract Coal Company, Contract Mine No.s 1, 2 and 4

Mine Index Number: 3788

Company Name:	Contract Coal Company
Mine Name:	Contract Mine No.s 1, 2 and 4
Start Date:	1907	End Date:	1929
Type of Mine:	Underground and Surface
Total acres shown:	205 and 188
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
The Western Brick Property mines show a total of 188 acres surface-mined and 205 acres underground-mined on Danville Southeast and Danville Southwest Quadrangles. These pits are named 3788 on the Danville Southwest Quadrangle and 3710 on the Danville Southeast Quadrangle. The production of the mines is not recorded so that tonnage can be reliably split between surface and underground mines to correspond to the area shown, thus the area shown is larger than would be expected for the tonnage recorded. Western Brick Company leased their coal lands to other operators, and some of the unlocated mines reported in Vermilion County probably mined Western Brick lands.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Tipple The slope entrances to the underground mines were not shown on the source map. They were presumably on the north side of the mines, near the new and old tipples shown on the map.

Vermilion

19N 12W

12

SW SE SW

Geology

		Thickness (ft)
Seam	Depth (ft)	Min	Max	Ave	Mining Method

Danville

10-95

5.5-6.67

RP and surface

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Reilly and Daugherty (add)	Western Brick No. 2 (add)	1907-1910	158,386

Contract Coal Company (add)	Contract No. 1 (underground) (add)	1910-1926 Idle 1920	935,688

Contract Coal Company (add)	Contract No. 1 (surface) (add)	1927-1930 Idle 1929	86,139

Contract Coal Company (add)	Contract No. 2 (underground) (add)	1924-1929	298,226

Contract Coal Company (add)	Contract No. 4 (surface) (add)	1926-1929 Idle 1928	12,932

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352885

9-26-1939

1:9600

1:8276

Final

USGS topographic map

PR 1978

1:24000

1:24000

Seconday source

WPA, T19N-R12W

4-23- 1927 The date of the WPA is circa 1935; the date shown is the survey extent of the mine shown on the WPA photo.

1:12000

1:55384

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Vermilion County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, slope location, seam, depth, thickness.

Microfilm map, document 352885, reel 03140, frame 516 - Slope location, general mine outline.

USGS topographic map, 1966, Photorevised 1978 - Mine outline (surface).

WPA map, T19N-R12W - Mine outline (underground on Danville SW Quadrangle).